Friends Attending

Friends Attending

Friends Attending

Description

Join world-renowned creative landscape, adventure and astro photographer Paul Zizka and Prince Edward Island’s own award-winning astro, landscape, and portrait specialist Dave Brosha for three one-of-a-kind days exploring the artistic vision behind creating dramatic day and night landscape images in one of Canada’s most scenic provinces.

Held in an incredibly unique venue - a 125+ year old barn set amongst the scenic rolling hills of rural Prince Edward Island - this photography event will mix classroom learning, night exploration, and day time photography across various locations on the “Red Island”, home to some of the most spectacular shoreline in Canada.

Paul and Dave will lead participants through three days that is sure to inspire, and is sure to elevate your creativity.

Itinerary*

Day 1 - Tuesday July 18th

10:00AM to 12:00PM - Group will meet at the barn for Introductions and Presentations

The price of the workshop does not include transportation. Participants will need to arrange car rentals or carpooling with other workshop participants. After the workshop fills, we will create a private Facebook group to allow participants to connect with each other.

Park Pass

A portion of the workshop will be held in Prince Edward Island National Park. The price of the workshop does not include a park pass. You will need to purchase a park pass when you arrive at the entrance to the park. For more information on Parks Canada passes, see http://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/tarifs-fees/tarif-fee_E.asp?park=517

What to expect

The workshop is suitable for participants of all levels of experience in photography. Most locations will be readily accessible from the road, although we may hike short distances on occasion.

This event focuses on landscape + outdoor + night photography but may possibly include a short portrait component. Talks will be focused primarily on the technical, artistic, and compositional process of creating strong images.

What to Bring

This will be a "rain or shine" event. Weather in July on Prince Edward Island is generally beautiful but there is, of course, the chance of rain storms, wind, bugs, and hot, hot sun. Please come prepared, accordingly, for all weather conditions.

Packing List:

• suitable and comfortable clothing, which you can layer

• warm jacket (for late night photoshoots)

• appropriate footwear (we will be in wet, rocky, and possibly muddy areas)

• a headlamp or flashlight (we will be in pre-dawn darkness for one morning)

Both Dave and Paul preach and live the ethics of "leave no trace" photography, which means that the utmost care is given, while hiking and photographing, to leaving zero impact on the natural environment. Participants are expected to approach this tour with the same ethics at all times.

Cancellation Policy

Spots are non-refundable but are transferrable (i.e. if the participant is able to find someone else to take their spot and can sell/transfer the spot to a new participant, this is acceptable). We cannot offer refunds or credits.

Although extremely unlikely, OFFBEAT Photography Inc. reserve the right to cancel the workshop at any time for a variety of reasons (i.e. if a minimum number of participants is not met or if unforeseen circumstances dramatically impacted the cost of the tour or global conditions somehow warranted a cancellation). In the very unlikely event of a cancellation, all monies/deposits made will be refunded to participants, however, no compensation would be made for participant flight cancellation fees.

Insurance

We encourage participants traveling from outside Alberta to have trip cancellation insurance, including medical/illness insurance.

About Dave Brosha

"Critically acclaimed....spectacular photos." - The Globe and Mail

Holding a passion for the world and an eye for the beauty it contains, northern commercial, personal, and landscape photographer Dave Brosha is on a continual journey to seek out and capture the beauty of this world – whether it’s the beauty of some of the most extreme and pristine environments in the world, or the beauty of some of a person’s most personal moments. In addition to living throughout northern Canada for much of his life, Dave – along with his beautiful wife and children – have also lived in Asia and have traveled extensively through both the many provinces and territories of their native country and numerous countries abroad.

Dave’s personal affiliations and representations include the First Light agency, Aurora Images, Offset, Getty Images (stock), National Geographic (stock), and the Canadian Press, for which Dave is a freelance photographer.

About Paul Zizka

Specializing in photographing in difficult conditions and hard-to-reach places, Paul has a passion for shooting alpine sports and backcountry experiences, capturing the spirit of adventurers and finding unusual angles of common mountain subjects. As a landscape photographer, he particularly enjoys the challenge of capturing nature’s beauty at night and the unique features that come with a dark sky – stars, Northern Lights and dramatic silhouettes.

Paul’s award-winning photos have been featured in a variety of publications, includingIMPACT,Alpinist, Canadian Geographic, Islands,PhotoLife, Fodors.com and explore magazine. In addition to his work for a number of clients, over the past few years Paul has created a signature collection of images for Banff Lake Louise Tourism, which are used to promote Banff National Park throughout the world.

In the Canadian Rockies, Paul has hiked extensively in the backcountry and photographed from the summits of countless peaks. His adventures abroad include a 1400-km unsupported double-crossing of Iceland on foot (2004), which is believed to be the first of its kind, and a 1488-km solo crossing of the South Island of New Zealand (2007). Recent travels have taken him backpacking in the Caribbean, exploring tiny insular nations of the Pacific, trekking in remote corners of Scandinavia and Nepal, and ski touring on Baffin Island.

For any additional questions, please contact us at workshops@offbeatphoto.ca